page_title: Ascidia
section_title: Selected species
hierarchical_section_title: Ascidia / Selected species
caption_attribution_description: English: Diagrammatic section of an Ascidia, representing the three sacs and the branchial sac as the pharynx or throat; a) branchial orifice; b) atrial orifice; c) tunic or test d) mantle; e) branchial sac; f) gullet; g) stomach; h) anal orifice; i) dorsal lamina;&#160;; the dotted line indicates the endostyle
context_page_description: Ascidia is a genus of tunicates in the family Ascidiidae.
context_section_description: Ascidia achimotae Millar, 1953
  Ascidia adamanensis Oka, 1915
  Ascidia ahodori Oka, 1927
  Ascidia alisea Monniot & Monniot, 2006
  Ascidia alpha Tokioka, 1953
  Ascidia alterna Monniot & Monniot, 1991
  Ascidia archaia Sluiter, 1890
  Ascidia arenosa Hartmeyer, 1898
  Ascidia armata Hartmeyer, 1906
  Ascidia aspera Brunetti, 2007
  Ascidia austera Sluiter, 1904
  Ascidia aximensis Millar, 1953
  Ascidia azurea Monniot & Monniot, 1996
  Ascidia bathybia Hartmeyer, 1922
  Ascidia bifissa Sluiter, 1895
  Ascidia bocatorensis Bonnet & Rocha, 2011
  Ascidia caguayensis Millar & Goodbody, 1974
  Ascidia callosa Stimpson, 1852
  Ascidia canaliculata Heller, 1878
  Ascidia cannelata Oken, 1820
  Ascidia capillata Sluiter, 1887
  Ascidia caudata Heller, 1878
  Ascidia celtica C. Monniot, 1969
  Ascidia ceratodes (Huntsman, 1912)
  Ascidia challengeri Herdman, 1882
  Ascidia citrina Nishikawa & Tokioka, 1975
  Ascidia clementea Ritter, 1907
  Ascidia collini Bonnet & Rocha, 2011
  Ascidia columbiana (Huntsman, 1912)
  Ascidia conchilega Muller, 1776
  Ascidia conifera (Hartmeyer, 1911)
  Ascidia corallicola Bonnet & Rocha, 2011
  Ascidia correi C. Monniot, 1970
  Ascidia curvata (Traustedt, 1882)
  Ascidia decepta Kott, 1985
  Ascidia depressiuscula Heller, 1878
  Ascidia despecta Herdman, 1880
  Ascidia dijmphniana Templeton, 1834
  Ascidia dorsata Meenakshi & Renganathan, 1999
  Ascidia empheres Sluiter, 1895
  Ascidia escabanae Monniot, 1998
  Ascidia fictile Monniot, 1997
  Ascidia fistulosa Monniot & Monniot, 1967
  Ascidia formella Monniot, 1998
  Ascidia fusca Monniot & Monniot, 1989
  Ascidia gamma Tokioka, 1954
  Ascidia gemmata Sluiter, 1895
  Ascidia glabra Hartmeyer, 1922
  Ascidia hyalina Oka, 1915
  Ascidia iberica C. Monniot & F. Monniot, 1988
  Ascidia incrassata Heller, 1878
  Ascidia interrupta Heller, 1978
  Ascidia involuta Heller, 1875
  Ascidia irregularis Oka, 1915
  Ascidia kreagra Sluiter, 1895
  Ascidia krechi Michaelsen, 1904
  Ascidia kuneides Sluiter, 1887
  Ascidia lagena Michaelsen, 1922
  Ascidia latesiphonica Hartmeyer, 1922
  Ascidia liberata Sluiter, 1887
  Ascidia limpida Sluiter, 1904
  Ascidia longistriata Hartmeyer, 1906
  Ascidia macropapilla Millar, 1982
  Ascidia malaca (Traustedt, 1883)
  Ascidia matoya Tokioka, 1949
  Ascidia mediterranea Pérès, 1959
  Ascidia melanostoma Sluiter, 1885
  Ascidia mentula Müller, 1776
  Ascidia meridionalis Herdman, 1880
  Ascidia molguloides C. Monniot, 1975
  Ascidia monnioti Bonnet & Rocha, 2011
  Ascidia multitentaculata (Hartmeyer, 1912)
  Ascidia munda Sluiter, 1897
  Ascidia muricata Heller, 1874
  Ascidia nerea Kott, 1985
  Ascidia nordestina Bonnet & Rocha, 2011
  Ascidia nuda Nishikawa, 1986
  Ascidia obliqua Alder, 1863
  Ascidia obocki Sluiter, 1905
  Ascidia occidentalis Kott, 1985
  Ascidia ornata Monniot & Monniot, 2001
  Ascidia pacifica Tokioka, 1967
  Ascidia panamensis Bonnet & Rocha, 2011
  Ascidia papillata Bonnet & Rocha, 2011
  Ascidia papillosa Tokioka, 1967
  Ascidia parasamea Kott, 1985
  Ascidia paratropa (Huntsman, 1912)
  Ascidia perfluxa Sluiter, 1904
  Ascidia placenta Herdman, 1880
  Ascidia polytrema Herdman, 1906
  Ascidia prolata Kott, 1985
  Ascidia prona Monniot & Monniot, 1994
  Ascidia prunum Müller, 1776
  Ascidia pygmaea Michaelsen, 1918
  Ascidia retinens Monniot, 1984
  Ascidia retrosipho Millar, 1988
  Ascidia saccula Kott, 2006
  Ascidia sagamiana Tokioka, 1953
  Ascidia salvatoris (Traustedt, 1885)
  Ascidia samea Oka, 1935
  Ascidia santosi Millar, 1958
  Ascidia savignyi Hartmeyer, 1915
  Ascidia scaevola (Sluiter, 1904)
  Ascidia scalariforme Bonnet & Rocha, 2011
  Ascidia spinosa Sluiter, 1904
  Ascidia stenodes Millar, 1962
  Ascidia stewartensis Millar, 1982
  Ascidia subterranea Kneer et al., 2013
  Ascidia sulca Monniot, 1991
  Ascidia sydneiensis Stimpson, 1855
  Ascidia tapuni Monniot & Monniot, 1987
  Ascidia tenera Herdman, 1880
  Ascidia tenue Monniot, 1983
  Ascidia thompsoni Kott, 1952
  Ascidia translucida Sluiter, 1890
  Ascidia tricuspis Sluiter, 1904
  Ascidia tritonis Herdman, 1883
  Ascidia trunca Brunetti, 2007
  Ascidia unalaskensis (Ritter, 1913)
  Ascidia urnalia Monniot, 1994
  Ascidia vermiformis (Ritter, 1913)
  Ascidia virginea Müller, 1776
  Ascidia willeyi Oka, 1915
  Ascidia xamaycana Millar & Goodbody, 1974
  Ascidia z
caption: Diagrammatic section of an Ascidia, representing the three sacs and the branchial sac as the pharynx or throat: (a) branchial orifice; (b) atrial orifice; (c) tunic or test (d) mantle; (e) branchial sac; (f) gullet; (g) stomach; (h) anal orifice; (i) dorsal lamina; the dotted line indicates the endostyle.
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